Quotes About Mindfulness

The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face. When we feel resentment because the room is too hot, we could meet the heat and feel its fieriness and its heaviness.

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.

maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

we can regard ourselves as already awake; we can regard our world as already sacred.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

We suffer when we want reality to be something other than it is.

283 Develop your curiosity, not caring whether the object of you inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet.~

Would you consider what I call the "inner eye" which opens for some of us, though not always when we want it or expect it – would you consider the inner eye as one of the sensory nerves?

If you can't face living your life day by day, you must live it minute by minute.

He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.

Reading in old age for me is doing what it has always done--it frees me from the closet of my own mind.

Calm down, she tells herself. Just because this has never happened to you before. Because you have reached the ripe age of thirty-one without knowing this peculiar derangement. For derangement is what it surely is; only by stern physical effort can she keep herself from looking at him, touching him.

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

Spellman often said that during his waking hours he was alone only twice each day, for 25 minutes each time:

People do not reconsider," Langer observes, "what they mindlessly accepted as true."14

Adoptar movimientos lentos para toda la vida.

Tengo ganas de andar, simplemente andar. No puedo hacer ya otra cosa.

Ansioso observaba sus propios pensamientos, siempre dispuesto a frenarlos. No quería olvidar ya nada más y repetía mentalmente los momentos recién pasados, como se repasan las palabras de una lengua extraña.

Oler el pan, la ginebra, plegar el papel… esa es la salvación.

Porque no sé dónde estoy, porque he olvidado que estoy en la habitación y espero que me llamen a comer, porque me he olvidado de mí mismo, porque ya no me llega nada desde fuera que me indique dónde se encuentra mi cuerpo y porque ningún ruido me retiene, los pensamientos me llevan de aquí para allá en tierra de nadie; no son pensamientos elaborados por mí, sino pensamientos que surgen en mí.